Ebook: Time As a Metaphor of History: Early India
Author: Romila Thapar
- Tags: India, Asia, History, Hinduism, Religious, World, History, Asia, History, Humanities, New Used & Rental Textbooks, Specialty Boutique, Europe, History, Humanities, New Used & Rental Textbooks, Specialty Boutique
- Series: Krishna Bharadwaj Memorial Lecture Oxford India Paperbacks
- Year: 1996
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This essay examines the link between time and history through the use of cyclic and linear concepts of time. While the former occurs in a cosmological context, the latter is found in familiar historical forms. The author argues for the existence of historical consciousness in early India on the evidence of early texts.
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